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Synonyms for embitter

make bitter or resentful

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Synonyms for embitter

to make or become bitter

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Synonyms for embitter

cause to be bitter or resentful

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He remembered that all the first part of his life had been embittered by a woman and he thought with alarm of the influence love might assume over so fine, and at the same time so vigorous an organization as that of Raoul.
He was embittered by the conviction that all this desolation had been brought about by the accident of her being a d'Urberville.
France had a minister here once who embittered the nation against him in the most innocent way.
I lay in bed wondering what she would be up to in the next number; I have lost trout because when they nibbled my mind was wandering with her; my early life was embittered by her not arriving regularly on the first of the month.
These attitudes ruin marriages, wither our children, alienate our friends and embitter every life - including our own.
That this brother is a creature blessed with unflagging health, kindness and financial success, only serves to embitter the central character.
The revelations about No Gun Ri, for example, only further embitter an already demoralized U.S.
Hillary Clinton can be criticized for many things--in particular, helping her husband embitter an entire year, perhaps an entire era, of our politics in the service of his perjuries.
However, the children become embittered with the consequences of their powers and later on go their separate ways - until the untimely and mysterious death of The Monocler brings them back together.
More police would help, it may not be the answer, but a top police officer who says that we need more police may just may know a bit more than an embittered Tory.
Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Ted Comet, close friend to Elie Wiesel: "At a time when we lack heroic models Elie Wiesel was a man who did not permit his experience in the hell of Auschwitz to leave him embittered,"
Are you this embittered because your party, the PDP, lost out?
He certainly knew how to write a gripping soap opera of warring and embittered families.
Lurcio was warned by Cassandra about the volcano but said to camera: "Oh, she's very embittered, you know.